The 1963 production and its 1986 revival were staged at the Strand Theatre and the Piccadilly Theatre respectively, and featured Frankie Howerd starring as Pseudolus, Kenneth Connor as Hysterium, ' Monsewer ' Eddie Gray as Senex, Jon Pertwee as Marcus Lycus and Leon Greene as Miles Gloriosus.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

* Lips ( Bobby Malach, Al Williams, Al Harrison, James Tinsley, Ronnie Foster, Lenny White, Marcus Miller, Raymond Gomez, Nick Morock, Don Blackman, Leon " Ndugu " Chancler and Clarke ) ( Nemperor Records / CBS Records, 1978 )

* Krazy Kat ( 1916-1917 ): directed by Gregory La Cava ; animated by Frank Moser, Leon Searl, Bill Nolan, Bert Green, Edward Grinham, Earl Klein, Isadore Klein, Sid Marcus, Al Rose

* Animators: Raoul Barré, Frank Moser, Leon A. Searl, Bert Green ( 1916-18 ), Bill Nolan ( 1916-18 ), Edward Grinham, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack King ( 1920-21 ), Will Powers, Walter Lantz, John Foster, George ( Vernon ) Stallings ( 1916-18 ), F. M. Follett, Leighton Budd, Hal Coffman, Grim Natwick ( 1916-18 ), Burton Gillett, Isadore Klein ( 1916-18 ), Earl Klein ( 1917-17 ), Sid Marcus ( 1916-17 ), Tom Norton ( 1916-18 ), Al Rose ( 1916-17 ), George Rufle ( c. 1916 )

In Dialectical Economics: An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy, a book published in 1975 by D. C. Heath and Company under the pen name Lyn Marcus, LaRouche tried to show that numerous Marxists – ranging from the Monthly Review group to Ernest Mandel, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and the " Soviet economists " – had failed to correctly understand and interpret Marx's writing.

He has supported artists ranging from Michael Jackson ( on the albums Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix ) to the Temptations, Whitney Houston, Thomas Anders, Patti LaBelle and Luis Miguel, to rockers such as Chicago and Elton John, to jazz greats such as George Duke, Dave Koz, Al Jarreau, David Benoit, Marcus Miller and Kirk Whalum, and to Christian artists such as Leon Patillo and Don Moen.

* 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist ( d. 2003 )

With the support of Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel by Leon Uris.

* Exodus, 1960 ( based on Leon Uris ' 1958 novel of the same name )

The Battle of Gallipoli and specifically Anzac Cove are featured prominently in the novel " Redemption " by Leon Uris.

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* Exodus ( 1960 ): filming of the Leon Uris bestseller set around the founding of the state of Israel

* Leon Uris – Trinity ( novel )

* Leon Uris – QB VII

* Leon Uris – Topaz

* In the Leon Uris novel QB VII the courtrooms in the Old Bailey feature prominently.

It is a Cold War and spy story, adapted from the book of the same name by Leon Uris and closely based on the 1962 Sapphire Affair involving French SDECE spy Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli ( a friend of Leon Uris ) who " ha played a considerable part in helping the U. S. discover the presence of Russian offensive missiles in Cuba ".

Alfred Hitchcock first hired Leon Uris to adapt his own novel for the screen.

Drawing of Leon Uris by Chaim Topol

Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna ( Blumberg ) Uris.

Leon Uris died of renal failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island in 2003, aged 78.

Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 376 pages ; scholarly biography

* Inventory of Leon Uris novel and screenplay manuscripts and other documents

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Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

* August 1 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer

* August 9 – Leon Gaumont, French film pioneer ( b. 1864 )

* August 21 – Leon Trotsky dies of injuries sustained.

* August 25 – Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just, French revolutionary ( d. 1794 )

* August 15 – King Alfonso IX of Leon ( d. 1230 )

Leon Bismark " Bix " Beiderbecke ( March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931 ) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.

A significant number, including Leon Trotsky and Adolf Joffe, joined the non-factional Petrograd-based anti-war group called Mezhraiontsy, which merged with the Bolsheviks in August 1917.

In August 1999 Geraint starred in Leon Pownall's one-man show, An Evening with Dylan Thomas, at the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Nova Scotia, Canada.

It responded to the assassination of Leon Trotsky by a Soviet agent with an article on 23 August 1940 entitled " A Counter Revolutionary Gangster Passes ", written by former editor Campbell.

In August 2006, Dr. Leon Hesser published The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger, an account of Borlaug's life and work.

Dale Leon Bumpers ( born August 12, 1925 ) is an American politician who served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975 ; and then in the United States Senate from 1975 until his retirement in January 1999.

A. Leon KubowitzkiOn 9 August 1944, Leon Kubowitzki ( later Aryeh Leon Kubovy ), the head of the WJC's Rescue Department, relayed a message from Ernest Frischer of the Czechoslovak State Council to the US State Department urging the destruction of the gas chambers and the bombing of railways lines leading to the Auschwitz death camp.

Stephen Wise addresses World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Montreux, Switzerland, August 1948On 21 September 1945, Pope Pius XII received WJC Secretary General Leon Kubowitzki in audience, who recounted to the pope the " great losses " suffered by the Jews during the war and expressed gratitude for what the church had done to help " our persecuted people.

Reiser married Paula Ravets on August 21, 1988 and they have two children: Ezra Samuel ( born September 1995 ) and Leon ( born 2000 ).

Bard Summerscape in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, presented the opera in a fully staged production in August 2009, conducted by Leon Botstein, directed by Thaddeus Strassberger and designed by Eugenio Recuenco ( decor ), Mattie Ullrich ( costumes ) and Aaron Black ( lighting ).

Leo ( or Leon ) IV ( also numbered Leo V ;, Levon IV ) ( 1309 – 28 August 1341 ) was the last Hethumid king of Cilicia, ruling from 1320 until his death.

In August 1940, after NKVD agent Ramón Mercader killed Leon Trotsky with an ice axe, Browder perpetuated Moscow's fiction that the killer, who had been dating one of Trotsky's secretaries, was a disillusioned follower.

Campas came back with seven straight wins, including one that gave him the WBO's regional NABO welterweight title, when he knocked out former world champion Genaro Leon in three rounds, August 7 of 1995.

Leon Adolphe Amette ( September 6, 1850 Douville-sur-Andelle, Eure – August 29, 1920 Antony, Hauts-de-Seine ) was a French Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Paris 1908 – 1920.

A Real Lives documentary for the BBC, " At the Edge of the Union " was temporarily blocked in August 1985 by direct government intervention from the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan which led to a one-day strike by the National Union of Journalists to defend the independence of the BBC.

Back in Mexico that August he spoke at Leon Trotskys funeral.